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[Important Note: Some links (especially Ars Technica) are NSFW for US government employees as they contain slides that are marked "Top Secret". Exercise discretion/caution in this story's comments, too. -Ed.]
Yes, it is cloud-based, yes, it does decide about the fate of hundreds of humans, and yes, ultimately it does direct robots to kill innocent humans.
SKYNET is a system created by the NSA that applies machine learning algorithms to supposedly determine the likelihood of someone turning into a terrorist based on mobile phone metadata. According to slides published at Ars Technica, evil acts like switching off your mobile phone (= evading surveillance), switching SIM cards (= trying unsuccessfully to evade surveillance, thanks to IMEI, etc.), swapping phones with others (= trying unsuccessfully to evade surveillance, thanks to other surveillance data) will be taken together as indicators of your evil intentions.
Patrick Ball—a data scientist and the executive director at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group—who has previously given expert testimony before war crimes tribunals, described the NSA's methods as "ridiculously optimistic" and "completely bullshit." A flaw in how the NSA trains SKYNET's machine learning algorithm to analyse cellular metadata, Ball told Ars, makes the results scientifically unsound.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @03:02AM
Intercept.org doesn't show any text, even with javascript allowed.
(Score: 2, Funny) by DeathElk on Wednesday February 17 2016, @03:07AM
Of course not, the hosting premises are now a smouldering pile of rubble...
(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday February 17 2016, @03:08AM
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @09:48AM
All but two of the slides are NSFW for US government employees, since they're marked "top secret". A top secret slide is on the Ars Technica page too. Could it be mentioned in the summary, please?
(Score: 2) by martyb on Wednesday February 17 2016, @11:14AM
Noted, and updated; thanks for kindly bringing it to our attention!
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday February 17 2016, @06:54AM
I just clicked the link on the source where I found it, it also doesn't work anymore. Either I mixed it up yesterday, having too many tabs open, or the website changed, Or Skynet is fighting an information war now, blocking the information so protect itself.
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